Hi! I'm really excited about this game, and I read the disclaimer about it not running reliably on Macs yet so hard hard feeling :)
When I try to launch the game I get the error: "gutwhale quit unexpectedly'. For additional info, I'm running Mac High Sierra 10.13.6. Lemme know if there's any else I can do to help! Looking forward to playing it!!!
To provide some additional data from the Mac side, I downloaded the game and am unable to run it at all, getting an error saying "The application "Gutwhale" can't be opened". This is on Mac Catalina 10.15.2.
I will probably end up playing on my Windows machine, but I also would be happy to help test any future Mac builds!
FYI This sounds a bit like the 'standard error' that you get with a lot of non-app store programs on Mac nowadays. It's usually solved by moving the app from the folder you downloaded it to — e.g. move it to Applications — and then running again. Also, due to permissions/security, you might need to open it via right-click (menu), then "Open".
If you do all of that, you might then be faced with the "quit unexpectedly" message ... or you might get lucky :)
Heyo!
Ah damm im very sorry crawlspace! Is it possible for you to refund the game?
If we never ever get the Mac version running (which i highly doubt) I can send you the game as a hmtl5 file you can run through any browser!
We are getting some reports from people with different Operating system right now, and I will look into all the issues, but i would say that the earliest time that can be resolved is tomorrow!
EDIT: ok i misunderstood your post, I thought u had not read the disclaimer and accidentally bought it :)
thanks for understanding!
Cheers,
josh
yeah i have been considering that!
but it feels pretty dangerous? because while the games has been allegedly cracked and can be pirated, a html build could be easily uploaded to the internet in a very accessible way that would be unfair to all the work we did on the game?
ill keep thinking about it ^^
hey thanks for understanding!
I posted a roadmap on the steampage of Gutwhale, where I show in what order I will work on stuff:
https://store.steampowered.com/newshub/app/1267810/view/2116070426734843924
Im expecting to get to Linux & Mac issues this weekend at the latest :)
There's a problem with the symlinks in the Mac App bundle. Instead of proper symlinks, these are plain files containing the symlink target as text. Apparently, this can occur when creating the App bundle on Windows. See this issue for more information: https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js/issues/6606
I was able to create a working App bundle by pasting the Resources folder into this nwjs App bundle downloaded here: https://dl.nwjs.io/v0.46.2/nwjs-v0.46.2-osx-x64.zip. For some reason the game is running slow in fullscreen mode, but other that that it seems to be working well.
I actualy think I just came across why this is and how to fix it https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24057 this issue gives some information on the distinction between TAR and ZIP but to summarise it seems that ZIP support for symlinks is weak and TAR handles them by default I recommend you just switch over to storing the app in TAR and seeing if it helps
this might also help but you likely already read it https://itch.io/docs/itch/integrating/compatibility-policy.html
Best of luck :)
